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An Intelligence Agenda

By Graham Allison ();

December 21, 1980,

, Section The Week In Review, Page E17, Column , words

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The central test of a national intelligence service is how well its analyses and estimates inform policy-makers of probable developments abroad. More than any other, it is this test that the United States intelligence community is failing today.

December 21, 1980

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